Here Be Dragons: Plasma-wall interactions science for future fusion energy devices. Zach Hartwig Nuclear Science and Engineering Department
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1 Here Be Dragons: Plasma-wall interactions science for future fusion energy devices Zach Hartwig Nuclear Science and Engineering Department
2 Our map for the next 25 minutes... I. Prerequisites II.Plasma-Wall Interactions (PWI) i. What are they? ii. Why are they important? iii. What have we done about studying them? III. Near-term advances in PWI diagnostic capabilities IV. Long-term plans for reactor-relevant PWI science
3 Prerequisite #1: Many people have made this talk possible Special thanks: Dennis Whyte Thanks: Harold Barnard, Paul Bonoli, Leslie Bromberg, Ian Faust, Mike Garrett, Christian Haakonsen, Dick Lanza, Bob Mumgaard, Geoff Olynyk, Josh Payne, Yuri Podpaly, Matt Reinke, Brandon Sorbom, Pete Stahl, and the Alcator C-Mod team
4 Prerequisite #2: PWI research lies at the intersection of many core subjects of the 3 NSE topical areas Fission Nuclear materials Neutron and gamma transport Nuclear Science and Technology Accelerator physics Radiation interaction with matter Advanced particle detectors Fusion Plasma transport Plasma boundary science Fusion reactor feasibility and economics Plasma-Wall Interactions Science
5 Prerequisite #3: Getting to know your magnetic fusion confinement device... Cross section of Alcator C-Mod (MIT) tokamak core components Central solenoid magnets (startup, current drive) Poloidal magnetic field (secondary confinement) Poloidal field magnets (plasma shaping and control) Toroidally confined plasma Toroidal plasma current (generates poloidal magnetic field) Toroidal magnetic field (primary confinement) Horizontal diagnostic ports Vacuum vessel Toroidal field magnets (generates toroidal field) Vertical diagnostic ports Walls composed of plasma facing components (PFCs) Divertor (Exhaust port)
6 I. Plasma-Wall Interactions
7 Hic sunt dracones: a medieval cartographic practice of depicting monsters in place of the unknown A portion of Carta Marina (Olaus Magnus, c A.D.)
8 Hic sunt plasmae superficies interactionus: a modern fusion science practice of leaving PWI undiagnosed Heating Transport Equilibrium Plasma-Wall Interactions Plasma edge Stability Confinement? Fusion Energy?? Device? Current drive Diagnostics A portion of Carta Marina (Olaus Magnus, c A.D.)
9 Plasma-boundary coupling results in modifications to core plasma and material surfaces in magnetic fusion devices Plasma-Wall Interactions (PWI) seeks to understand the coupled system that forms between magnetically confined plasmas and their physical boundary surfaces known as plasma facing components (PFC). PFCs are exposed to extremely hostile environments... heat fluxes up to ~109 W/m2 charged particle fluxes up to ~105 A/m2 neutron fluxes and nuclear activation...resulting in modifications to the PFC surfaces: hydrogenic fuel retention (deuterium, tritium) net erosion and redeposition melting isotope mixing sputtering Heat and charged particles Fusion neutrons
10 PWI involves complex physical interactions that span 12 and 20 orders of magnitude in length and time Courtesy of D.G. Whyte and G.M. Olynyk
11 Examples from Alcator C-Mod demonstrate the destructive potential of PWI issues Midplane limiter PFC tiles Upper divertor PFC tiles
12 Extrapolating to reactor-scale devices indicates the potential severity of PSI issues for fusion energy Implications Unknown affect on core plasma Increased cost Increased maintenance shut down Operational limits Shortened device and component lifetimes Feasibility of magnetic fusion energy
13 Visually depicting present and future tokamaks illustrates the PWI challenge for fusion energy Courtesy of D.G. Whyte
14 Sometimes there's good reason to use log plots... Courtesy of D.G. Whyte
15 A diversity of experiments are presently exploring PWI although almost all are ex-situ diagnosis Courtesy of D.G. Whyte
16 Ex-situ ion beam analysis (IBA) has been the gold standard for PWI research Particle detector 1. ~MeV ions are incident upon a material to be studied 2. Incident ions scatter/react with ions present in material 3. Particle detection and energy spectroscopy provides material property information Scattered particles Incident ions Material Scattered particle IBA technique Incident ion Rutherford backscattering (RBS) Material ion Elastic recoil detection (ERD) X-rays Particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) Gamma-rays Particle induced Gamma-ray emission (PIGE) Nuclear products Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA)
17 II. Near-term advances in PWI diagnostic capabilities
18 New in-situ diagnostics are required to significantly advance PWI science in magnetic fusion devices Ex-situ diagnostics and benchtop PWI experiments are critically limited Unable to replicate tokamak-relevant PWI conditions ( benchtop ) Limited PFC surfaces available for measurement (IBA) Archaeological measurements lack dynamic PWI information (IBA) In-situ PWI surface diagnostics are severely limited in deployment and unable to meet all requirements The ideal PFC surface diagnostic would provide measurements: in-situ without vacuum break on a shot-to-shot frequency for time resolution and PWI dynamics of large areas of PFC surfaces (poloidally and toroidally resolved) of elemental/isotope discrimination to depths of ~10 microns
19 Basic principles of in-situ IBA for a tokamak (1) Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator injects 0.9 MeV D+ into the vacuum vessel through a radial port
20 Basic principles of in-situ IBA for a tokamak (1) Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator injects 0.9 MeV D+ into the vacuum vessel through a radial port (2) Tokamak magnetic fields provide steering via the Lorentz force Toroidal field provides poloidal steering : B v beam R F Vertical field provides toroidal steering : v beam R B z F
21 Basic principles of in-situ IBA for a tokamak (1) Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator injects 0.9 MeV D+ into the vacuum vessel through a radial port (2) Tokamak magnetic fields provide steering via the Lorentz force: Toroidal field provides poloidal steering : B (3) D+ induce high Q nuclear reactions with low Z isotopes in PFC surfaces producing ~MeV neutrons and gammas v beam R n γ F Vertical field provides toroidal steering : v beam R B z F
22 Basic principles of in-situ IBA for a tokamak (1) Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator injects 0.9 MeV D+ beam into the vacuum vessel through a radial port Toroidal field provides poloidal steering : (2) Tokamak magnetic fields provide steering via the Lorentz force: (3) D+ induce high Q nuclear reactions with low Z isotopes in PFC surfaces producing ~MeV neutrons and gammas (4) In-vessel detection and energy spectroscopy provides a veritable cornucopia of PFC information B n BC501A Detector v beam R F γ LaBr3:Ce Detector Vertical field provides toroidal steering : v beam R B z F
23 A custom beam dynamics code is used to explore magnetic beam steering and PFC surface coverage Imagine unwrapping the 3D PFC surface into a 2D skin
24 Moderate height, angled injection provides excellent coverage with acceptable magnetic field
25 Moderate height, angled injection provides excellent coverage with acceptable magnetic field
26 ACRONYM is a Geant4 synthetic diagnostic for an accelerator-based PFC diagnostic on Alcator C-Mod ACRONYM* is a Monte Carlo particle transport-in-matter simulation capable of modelling and detecting deuteron-induced nuclear reactions to enable analysis of plasma facing component (PFC) surface conditions. ACRONYM features: Realistic C-Mod geometry and magnetic fields RFQ accelerator 0.9 MeV deuteron beam Fully functional synthetic neutron and gamma detectors Deuteron-induced nuclear reaction production module Parallel architecture (Open MPI) for scalable processing The geometry of Alcator C-Mod visualized in ACRONYM An incident deuteron beam (yellow) reacts with boron film on C-Mod s outer divertor tiles (red) to produce gamma rays (green) An incident gamma ray (green) induces scintillation light (magenta) that is absorbed (orange) by an avalance photodiode (red) * Alcator C-Mod RFQ Official Neutron Yield Model
27 First wall boron film thicknesses will be measured by gamma spectroscopy with LaBr3:Ce scintillator Alcator C-Mod deposits ~μm films of boron onto its Mo/W first wall to achieve high performance plasma discharges We are completely blind to the deposition efficiency, film coverage of the first wall, and film evolution over time due to lack of surface diagnostic! The incident D+ beam will react with boron to produce gamma via the nuclear reaction: 11B + 2H p + 12B* 12B + γ Eγ is characteristic of 12B nuclear level spacing and therefore uniquely identifies the presence of boron films on the PFCs The number of γ's emitted correlates to the thickness of the boron film
28 ACRONYM incorporates a deuteron-induced yield model for calculating gamma emission spectra The yield of 0.95 MeV gammas can be calculated with numeric integration of * : Nd is number of incident deuterons ni is the number density of isotope i σi is the gamma production cross section S is the deuteron stopping power * Mateus et al, NIM B 219 (2004) 519
29 ACRONYM incorporates a deuteron-induced yield model for calculating gamma emission spectra The yield of 0.95 MeV gammas can be calculated numerically * : Nd is number of incident deuterons ni is the number density of isotope i σi is the gamma production cross section S is the deuteron stopping power Gamma production cross section data are found in nuclear databases or will be measured Polynomial fits to gamma production cross sections * Mateus et al, NIM B 219 (2004) 519
30 ACRONYM incorporates a deuteron-induced yield model for calculating gamma emission spectra The yield of 0.95 MeV gammas can be calculated numerically * : Nd is number of incident deuterons ni is the number density of isotope i σi is the gamma production cross section S is the deuteron stopping power Polynomial fits to gamma production cross sections Gamma production cross section data are found in nuclear databases or will be measured D+ stopping power in elemental boron calculated with SRIM-2010 ** Both are fit with polynomials and folded into numerical integration * Mateus et al, NIM B 219 (2004) 519 ** Ziegler et al, NIM B 268 (2010) Polynomial fitsto 0.9 MeV D+ stopping power in boron
31 ACRONYM can produce realistic detector pulse height spectra from known boron thicknesses ACRONYM produces synthetic D+ induced gamma spectra at same location for known boron thicknesses 0.95 MeV gamma photopeak Synthetic spectra for 4 thicknesses of boron at location shown in upper right
32 ACRONYM synthetic gamma spectra will be used to interpret experimental data Experimental measurements at known location will produce D+ induced gamma spectra with no knowledge of boron thickness
33 ACRONYM synthetic gamma spectra will be used to interpret experimental data ACRONYM can be run iteratively with varied boron thicknesses until the experimental spectrum converges to the synthetic spectrum
34 AGNOSTIC* will be installed amidst a dizzying array of other diagnostics at B-port horizontal A solid model with cutaways of the proposed installation location for AGNOSTIC on Alcator C-Mod. (Lots of stuff not shown!) Concrete igloo (shielding) HiReX Sr Spectrometer (Plasma diagnostic) Vacuum vessel Impurity injector (plasma transport studies) * Accelerator based Gamma and Neutron Observant Surface diagnosing Tool for In situ Components B-port rules! Lyman-alpha camera (plasma diagnostic) Hard X-Ray Camera (fast electron diagnostic)
35 AGNOSTIC will be installed amidst a dizzying array of other diagnostics at B-port horizontal A solid model with cutaways of the proposed installation location for AGNOSTIC on Alcator C-Mod. (Lots of stuff not shown!)
36 AGNOSTIC consists of the RFQ accelerator, beamline, reentrant tube and particle detectors Cryopumps (provide vacuum) 0.9 MeV deuteron beam Gate valve (vacuum barrier) Gate valves Quadrupole (beam focusing) Neutron and gamma detectors Reentrant vacuum tube RF input (provides accelerating electric field) RFQ cavity (accelerates deuterons)
37 AGNOSTIC will be installed during the summer and the first in-situ PWI measurements are slated for late 2011 DIAGNOSTIC TIMELINE Task 2009 to early-2011 ( work complete or nearly complete ) Recommissioning of RFQ accelerator Development of synthetic diagnostic Assembly of detectors, data acquisition (DAQ) Early-2011 to mid-2011 Mid-2011 Mid-2011 to late-2011 Late-2011 Deuterium cross section measurements Engineering beamline, interface to C-Mod Installation of RFQ on C-Mod Installation of detectors and DAQ Validation of beam steering algorithms Validation of detectors, synthetic diagnostic First in-situ PFC composition measurements
38 IV. Long-term plans for reactor-relevant PWI science
39 Building a viable tokamak fusion reactor will require achieving six grand challenges A divertor that can survive the heat flux Materials for the neutron environment Control of a self-heated burning plasma Non-inductive steady-state operation A closed tritium fuel cycle A realistic maintenance scheme Icons courtesy of the inimitable G.M. Olynyk
40 Most of the grand challenges are intricately linked to PWI issues A divertor that can survive the heat flux Materials for the neutron environment Non-inductive steady-state operation A closed tritium fuel cycle A realistic maintenance scheme Icons courtesy of the inimitable G.M. Olynyk
41 Plasma-wall interactions lie at the crux of future fusion reactor economics Minimizing the cost of fusion power will require operating conditions that pose significant PWI challenges ~ 4 MW/m2 neutron power loading on first wall (electricity) requires ~ 1 MW/m2 plasma power loading through boundary (exhaust) PWI challenge: all exhaust eventually impinges upon material surfaces as heat fluxes (~ 10 MW/m2 and above) Maximizing power production efficiency requires operating with hot (800K? 1000K?) first wall and blanket (You can't escape Carnot!) PWI challenge: thermally-activated reaction rates (e.g. tritium diffusion and trapping) lead to a fundamentally new regime of PFC chemistry Continual 24/7 operation for power production PWI challenge: > 30 TJ/m2 to material surface from energetic plasma ions
42 Vulcan: a tokamak conceptual design that matches reactorrelevant PWI at a fraction of the size and cost Vulcan is 1/5 the size of a reactor (cost goes as ~R2!) that achieves reactor-like PWI issues Physics of interest Atomic physics in the divertor Magnetic geometry, especially in the divertor Parameter scaling Te /Eionization, Ti /Eionization, Te /Esputtering, Ti /Esputtering matched Safety factor q, aspect ratio, matched ion gyroradius / mean free path Power width in SOL Temperature gradient scale length to major radius ratio assumed SOL parallel heat flux Stangeby 2-point model: n R 2/7 = c implies same q matched Material erosion and redeposition in divertor Ratio of ion mean free path to divertor scale length worse in Vulcan
43 High-field side lower hybrid current drive system Double vacuum vessel and gas cooled divertor modules Demountable high temperature superconducting magnets
44 Series of Vulcan studies to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design D.G.Whyte, G.M. Olynyk, et. al. Vulcan: a steady-state tokamak for reactor-relevant plasma--material interaction science, Fusion Eng. and Design, To be submitted. Z.S. Hartwig, C.B. Haakonsen, R.T. Mumgaard, and L. Bromberg. A study of demountable high-temperature superconducting toroidal-field magnets for the Vulcan tokamak conceptual design, Fusion Eng. and Design, To be submitted. Y.A. Podpaly, G.M. Olynyk, M.L. Garrett, and P.T. Bonoli The lower hybrid current drive system for steady-state operation of the Vulcan tokamak conceptual design Fusion Eng. and Design, To be submitted. H.S. Bernard and J.E. Payne. A High Temperature, Helium Cooled Vacuum Vessel and First Wall for the Vulcan tokamak conceptual design Fusion Eng. and Design, To be submitted.
45 Conclusion The future of magnetic fusion energy and plasma-wall interactions?
46 Conclusion The future of magnetic fusion energy and plasma-wall interactions! PWI is a tremendously complex physical phenomena that poses significant challenges to our understanding of magnetic confinement devices New in-situ comprehensive diagnostics are poised to reveal a wealth of dynamic, reactor-relevant PWI science The construction of a dedicated PWI research tokamak facility such as Vulcan could clear the ocean of monsters and determine a reactor-relevant solution to PWI issues in magnetic fusion energy
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